Empires of vision : a reader / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jay, Martin, 1944-

Ramaswamy, Sumathi.

Series:

Objects/histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Postcolonialism.

Visual anthropology.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xvi, 669 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that comprise the visual milieu of colonization, struggles for decolonization, and the lingering effects of empire. Taken together, they demonstrate that an appreciation of the role of visual experience is necessary for understanding the functioning of hegemonic imperial power and the ways that the colonized subjects spoke to, and looked back at, their imperial rulers. Book jacket.

Contents:

The walls of images / Serge Gruzinski

Painting as exploration : visualizing nature in eighteenth-century colonial science / Daniela Bleichmar

Indian yellow : making and breaking the imperial palette / Jordanna Bailkin

Colonial panaromania / Roger Benjamin

Objects of knowledge : oceanic artifacts in European engravings / Nicholas Thomas

Excess in the city? Consumption of imported prints in colonial Calcutta, c. 1780-c. 1795 / Natasha Eaton

Advertising and the optics of colonial power at the fin de siècle / David Ciarlo

Mapping plus ultra : cartography, space, and Hispanic modernity / Ricardo Padrcentn

Mapping an exotic world : the global project of Dutch cartography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt

Visual regimes of colonization : European and Aboriginal seeing in Australia / Terry Smith

The photography complex : exposing Boxer-era China (1900-1901), making civilization / James L. Hevia

Colonial theaters of proof : representation and laughter in the 1930s Rockefeller Foundation hygiene cinema in Java / Eric A. Stein

Colonialism and the built space of cinema / Brian Larkin

Speaking back to Orientalist discourse / Zeynep Çelik

Maps, mother/goddesses, and martyrdom in modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy

Notes from the surface of the image : photography, postolonialism, and vernacular modernism / Christopher Pinney

"I am rendered speechless by your idea of beauty" : the picturesque in history and art in the postcolony / Krista A. Thompson

Fanon, Algeria, and the cinema : the politics of identification / Robert Stam

Creole Europe : the reflection of a reflection / Christopher Pinney

Picasso, Africa, and the schemata of difference / Simon Gikandi

Double Dutch and the culture game / Olu Oguibe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822354482

0822354489

9780822354369

0822354365

OCLC:

836206057